Until last week, Donald Trump was the man who threatened to end the United States of America. I was assured this by all the right people, who spent endless hours musing about how he would destroy a once-great country.
He would create concentration camps, execute his enemies, round up all the minorities and put them in chains, and hand the world over to Vladimir Putin on a silver platter.
He was Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini in one. I am not sure why the establishment left Mao out of the mix, but my guess is that Mao is actually their hero–although I really think of them as more in the image of Xi Jinping myself.
“Just this week, when Trump was swaying to music at a surreal rally, he did so in front of a huge slogan: Trump Was Right About Everything. This is language borrowed directly from Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist,” @anneapplebaum writes.
